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NASA is looking to develop a new generation of low-emission commercial aircraft that will offer a more efficient and sustainable mode of travel. The space agency has commissioned five new design studies as part of its Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability (AACES) 2050 initiative. The organizations contributing to new airliner design concepts include Boeing’s …

NASA Awards $11.5 Million To Help Design The Aircraft Of Tomorrow. Read More »

“The Space Gal” is now the 100th woman to fly to space. Emily Calandrelli, who adopted her online persona long before she booked a trip with Blue Origin, lifted off on Friday (Nov. 22) as one of the six passengers aboard the company’s New Shepard rocket. The 10-minute suborbital flight — of which about four …

Blue Origin Crew, Including History’s 100th Woman To Fly To Space, Lands Safely. Read More »

SpaceX wants to ramp up flights of its Starship megarocket next year, and regulations apparently won’t stand in the way. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a draft environmental assessment (EA) of Starship operations at Starbase, SpaceX‘s facility in South Texas. The 160-page document, which you can read here, approves …

SpaceX Likely To Get FAA Approval For 25 Starship Launches In 2025. Read More »

NASA is keeping its foot on the gas for the space agency’s Artemis program, announcing plans to assign demonstration missions for the two vehicles it has picked to land astronauts on the moon. Both SpaceX and Blue Origin were awarded contracts for NASA’s Human Landing System, and have been in the process of designing their …

NASA Chooses SpaceX And Blue Origin To Deliver Rover, Astronaut Base To The Moon. Read More »

Blue Origin will launch its ninth space tourism flight this morning (Nov. 22). The mission — known as NS-28, because it will be the 28th launch overall of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle — is scheduled to lift off from the company’s West Texas spaceport during a window that opens at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 …

Watch Blue Origin Launch ‘Space Gal’ Emily Calandrelli, 5 Others On Tourism Flight Today. Read More »

SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast this morning (Nov. 21), continuing a very busy stretch for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:07 a.m. EST (1607 GMT), the beginning of a nearly four-hour-long window. The …

SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites From Florida, Its 7th Liftoff In A Week. Read More »

A suborbital rocket is set to help scientists take the next step in various realms of research with a launch from northern Sweden. The launch window for the SubOrbital Express-4 mission — which will fly from the Esrange Space Center, above the Arctic Circle — opens on Nov. 22. It will send six experiments from …

Suborbital Rocket Set To Launch 6 Experiments From Sweden’s Arctic Spaceport On Nov. 22. Read More »

A Russian cargo spacecraft launched toward the space station on Thursday morning (Nov. 21). A Soyuz rocket launched the uncrewed Progress 90 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:22 a.m. EST (1222 GMT; 5:22 p.m. local time in Kazakhstan). NASA carried the launch live via NASA+, launch …

Russian Soyuz Rocket Launches Supplies To ISS On 90th Progress Cargo Spacecraft. Read More »

The International Space Station took some evasive action on Tuesday (Nov. 19). A Russian Progress cargo ship that’s docked to the ISS fired its thrusters for 5.5 minutes on Tuesday afternoon beginning at 3:09 p.m. EST (2009 GMT). The goal was to make sure the orbiting complex dodged a potentially dangerous piece of space junk. …

ISS Fires Thrusters To Dodge Hunk Of Space Junk. Read More »

The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has a half-dozen launches under its belt. SpaceX‘s 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship megarocket lifted off for the sixth time ever (Nov. 19), rising off the orbital launch mount at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas at 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT; 4:00 p.m. local Texas …

SpaceX Starship Launches Banana To Space, Skips Giant Rocket Catch On 6th Test Flight. Read More »